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RE: Steemit Pedophile Ring Exposed
This is absolutely disgusting. Steemit is not a platform for this sort of thing and those who abuse it ruin it for the rest of us and future creators. But more importantly, child pornography is abusive and immoral. Thank you for sharing this and alerting myself and other Steemians, I did not know this kind of thing existed on here. I will resteem to help support!
Steem is absolutely the platform for all things illegal and unethical, as censorship resistance is one of the key features of this network.
Just looked this over, I believe the majority of people have good in their heart.. so this is one reason why the flag system should exist. It will work well that way... I know I wont allow people to profit from this type of evil here. I am trying to refuel my VP over the next few days --- dtube got me way too excited and I have been using more gas than usual. I will flag this account as well when I can brother... @titusfrost good work here.
Have you checked the evidence behind what these guys are being accused of? The poster seems pretty paedophilic, but the age of the girls in the "porn" is questionable and could easily be 18+ and the other photos of "teens" are clothed and none are participating in anything sexual. While I don't like to see photos of young people of ANY nature posted online, and am disgusted by the OP's phaedophilic titles and comments, the people in this post are getting a "guilty by association" sentence because of this post. Not good work at all @titusfrost. You've slandered these people with lack of proof of their association with paedophiles!
Some very clever thinking going on there @beanz :) I can sense a lot of flawed logic going on here. Only social justice warriors use the weapons of guilt and shame with NO HARD EVIDENCE!
Absolutely! It is our responsibility as good stakeholders to flag shit like this. You're right that 99.9% people are good here, but the remaining 0.1% evil people will always be there. Like in the real world, same on Steem. We just have to flag them and ostracize them till they give up. It's a noble way to use VP, to fight abuse such as this.
Unfortunately the decentralized nature of steemit will make this a complicated issue. Images and video arent kept on the blockchain but if this guy or others starts posting URLs or other text based means of spreading it then no matter what the admins do it will be up forever.
I dont know what the devs plan to do in this situation but this is why we cant have nice things. If no action can be taken besides flagging and moving on then this can damage the image of steem for eternity.